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| x Ainu people |
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Horohoro |
The Ainu (アイヌ) IPA: [ʔáinu] (also called Ezo in historical texts) are an indigenous ethnic group of Japan. Historically they spoke the Ainu language and related varieties and lived in Hokkaidō, the Kuril Islands, and much of Sakhalin. Most of those...
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| x Silvan Elves |
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the best known Silvan Elves are the Elves of northern Mirkwood and Lothlórien. In the First Age the Elves of Ossiriand, or Laiquendi, were also referred to as wood-elves.
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| x Noldor |
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Fëanor |
In the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Noldor (meaning those with knowledge) were those of the second clan of the Elves, the Tatyar, who came to Aman. According to legend, the clan was founded by Tata, the second Elf to awake at Cuiviénen, his spouse...
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| x Sindar | Legolas |
In the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, the fictional Sindar (meaning Grey People, singular Sinda, although the latter term was not generally used by Tolkien) are Elves of Telerin descent. They are also known as the Grey Elves. Their language is Sindarin....
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| x Lebanese American |
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Maxwell Klinger |
Lebanese Americans are American citizens of Lebanese descent. This includes both those who are native to the United States as well as Lebanese immigrants to America. The vast majority of them are Christians, in particular Maronites. Lebanese...
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| x African American |
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Bubbles |
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans...
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| Avery J. Johnson | |||
| Keith Anderson | |||
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| x Indian American |
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Asok |
Indian Americans are Americans who are of Indian ancestry. The U.S. Census Bureau popularized the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with "American Indian".
In North America the term Indian has an ambiguous meaning. Historically, Indian was...
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| Kumar Patel | |||
| Kelly Kapoor | |||
| Lawrence Kutner | |||
| Karamchand Baidwan | |||
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| x Asian American |
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Harry Kim |
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. They include ethnic groups such as Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian/Khmer, Pakistani Americans and others whose national origin is from the Asian continent. In Oxford...
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| Mr Wong | |||
| Gehenna | |||
| George Huang | |||
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| x Canadian-American |
A Canadian-American is an American of Canadian descent. The term is particularly apt when applied or self-applied to people with strong ties to Canada, such as those who have lived a significant portion of their lives in, or were educated in, Canada...
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| x White |
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Jesse Custer |
White people (in American English also Caucasian) is a term which usually refers to human beings characterized, at least in part, by the light pigmentation of their skin. Rather than a straightforward description of skin color, the term white also...
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| x Jewish |
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Tevye |
The Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים, Yehudim), also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as...
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| Rachel Berry | |||
| Fran Reeves | |||
| Allison Reeves | |||
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| x Scottish people |
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William Wallace |
The Scots people (Scots Gaelic: Albannach) and an ethnic group indigenous to Scotland.
An ethnic group, historically they emerged from an amalgamation of Picts, Gaels and Brythons.
In modern use, for convenience, "Scottish people" or "Scots" is...
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| Robert the Bruce | |||
| Jamie MacDonald | |||
| Malcolm Tucker | |||
| x British Asian |
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Kash Karib |
British Asian is a term used to describe British citizens who descended from mainly South Asia. In British English, the term the 'Asian' usually excludes East Asians (see East Asians in the United Kingdom).
Prior to the formation of the United...
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| Chesney Karib | |||
| Meena Karib | |||
| Umi Karib | |||
| x Black British |
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Norma Starkey |
Black British is a term which has had different meanings and uses as a racial and political label. Historically it has been used to refer to any non-white British national. The term was first used at the end of the British Empire, when several major...
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| Martha Jones | |||
| x Vietnamese people |
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Mayko Tran |
The Vietnamese people (Vietnamese: người Việt or người Kinh) are an ethnic group originating from what is now northern Vietnam and southern China. They are the majority ethnic group of Vietnam, comprising 86% of the population as of the 1999 census,...
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| x Caucasian race |
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William Bush |
The term Caucasian race (also Caucasoid) has been used to denote the general physical type of some or all of the indigenous populations of Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia. Historically, the term has...
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| Horatio Hornblower | |||
| Robin | |||
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| x Black |
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Stephen Franklin |
The term black people usually refers to a racial group of humans with skin colors that range from light brown to nearly black. It also has been used to categorize a number of diverse populations into a common group. Some definitions of the term...
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| Hiro Protagonist | |||
| x Minbari Warrior Caste | Lenonn |
In the fictional Babylon 5 universe, the Warrior Caste is one of three castes in Minbari society. Members of this caste primarily serve as members of the military and protectors of the Minbari. The members of the Warrior Caste are the most...
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| x Minbari Religious Caste | Delenn | ||
| x Arab |
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Zara |
Arab people (Arabic: عربي, ʿarabi) or Arabs (العرب al-ʿarab) are an ethnic group whose members identify along linguistic, cultural or genealogical grounds. Arabs are a Semitic people originating in Arabia, but today spread across most of Western...
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| Talia al Ghul | |||
| Ali Baba | |||
| Ra's al Ghul | |||
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| x Eskimo |
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Eskimos or Esquimaux are indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the circumpolar region from eastern Siberia (Russia), across Alaska (United States) and Canada, and all of Greenland.
There are two main groups referred to as Eskimo: Yupik...
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| x Māori |
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Jake "the Muss" Heke |
The Māori (commonly pronounced /ˈmɑːɔri/ or /ˈmaʊri/) are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand (Aotearoa). The group probably arrived in southwestern Polynesia in several waves at some time before 1300. The Māori settled the islands and...
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| x Italian American |
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Greg Wuliger |
An Italian American (Italian: Italoamericano singular, Italian: Italoamericani plural) is an American of Italian ancestry, and/or may also refer to someone possessing Italian/American dual citizenship. Italian Americans are the fourth largest...
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| Justin Russo | |||
| Max Russo | |||
| Alex Russo | |||
| Al Giardello | |||
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| x Arab American |
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An Arab American is a United States citizen or resident of Arab cultural and linguistic heritage and/or identity whose ancestry traces back to any of various waves of immigrants originating from one or more of the twenty-three countries comprising...
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| x Mexican American |
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Carmen de la Pica Morales |
Mexican Americans are Americans of Mexican descent. They account over 12.5% of the country's population: 30.7 million Americans listed their ancestry as Mexican as of 2006, forming about 64% of all Hispanics and Latinos in the United States. The...
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| El Muerto | |||
| Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald | |||
| Relámpago | |||
| Marcus Álvarez | |||
| x German American |
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Wallenquist Organization |
German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are Americans of German descent. They form the largest self-reported ancestry group in the United States, outnumbering the Irish and English. They account for 50 million people, or 17% of the U.S....
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| Michael Scott | |||
| Meg Griffin | |||
| Freddy Krueger | |||
| John Rambo | |||
| x Polish American |
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Stanislaus Valchek |
A Polish American (Polish: Amerykanin polskiego pochodzenia), is a citizen of the United States of Polish descent. There are an estimated 22 million such Polish Americans, representing about 6% of the population of the United States.
The first Poles...
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| Frank Sobotka | |||
| Stanley Kowalski | |||
| Michael Stivic | |||
| Walt Kowalski | |||
| x Irish American |
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Donnatella Moss |
Irish Americans (Irish: Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are citizens of the United States who trace their ancestry to Ireland. A total of 36,495,800 Americans (more than 12% of total population) reported Irish ancestry in the 2006 American Community Survey....
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| Jack Donaghy | |||
| Archbishop Gilday | |||
| Nina Cassady | |||
| Dr. Cox | |||
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| x Greek American |
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Rastapopoulos |
Greek Americans (Greek: Ελληνοαμερικανοί, Ellinoamerikani) are American of Greek descent. According to the 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimation, there were 1,380,088 people of Greek ancestry in the United States, while the State Department mentions...
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| Damien Karras | |||
| x Cuban American |
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A Cuban American (Spanish: Cubano americano) is a United States citizen who traces his or her "national origin" to Cuba. Cuban Americans are also considered native born Americans with Cuban parents. Cuban Americans form the third-largest Hispanic...
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| x Scots-Irish American |
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Randal Graves |
Scotch-Irish (the historically common term in North America) or Scots-Irish refers to inhabitants of the United States and, by some, of Canada who are of Ulster Scottish descent. The term may be qualified with American (or Canadian) as in "Scotch...
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| x Swedish American |
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Swedish Americans are Americans of Swedish descent, most often related to the large groups of immigrants from Sweden in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Most Swedish Americans are Lutherans affiliated with the Evangelical...
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| x French American |
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Scarlett O'Hara |
French Americans or Franco-Americans are Americans of French descent. About 11.8 million U.S. residents are of French descent, and about 1.6 million speak French at home. An additional 450,000 U.S. residents speak a French-based creole language,...
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| x Scottish American |
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Michael Scott |
Scottish Americans or Scots Americans (Scottish Gaelic: Ameireaganaich Albannach) are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates in Scotland. Scottish Americans are closely related to Scotch-Irish Americans, descendants of Ulster Scots,...
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| Indiana Jones | |||
| Henry Jones, Sr. | |||
| Mutt Williams | |||
| Seth Cohen | |||
| x Dutch-American |
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Henry |
A Dutch American is an American of Dutch descent.
In 1613, the first Dutch settlers arrived and founded a number of villages and a town called New Amsterdam on the East Coast, which would become the future world metropolis of New York. According to...
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| Rip Van Winkle | |||
| Milhouse Van Houten | |||
| x Dominican American |
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A Dominican American (also Dominican-York) is any American who has origins in the Dominican Republic. (Not to be mistaken for Dominicans from the Commonwealth of Dominica).
Immigration records of Dominicans in the United States date from the late...
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| x Russian American |
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Moose Mason |
Russian Americans are Americans whose ancestors were born in Russia. Non-ethnic Russians in this group could be Jews, Ukrainians, Armenians, or any other ethnicity who were born and grew up in Russia.
The Russian American population is reported to...
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| x English American |
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Michael Scott |
English Americans (occasionally known as Anglo-Americans, although this may have a wider linguistic meaning) are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England. According to 2000 U.S census data, Americans...
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| x Bengali people |
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The Bengali people are an ethnic community native to the historic region of Bengal (now divided between Bangladesh and India) in South Asia. They speak Bengali (বাংলা Bangla), which is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent,...
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| x Latvian-American |
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Latvian Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Latvian ancestry. According to the 2000 US census, there are 87,564 Americans of full or partial Latvian descent. The states with the largest Latvian-American populations are:
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| x English |
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Sherlock Holmes |
The English (from Old English: Englisc) are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn.
The largest single...
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| Jack Aubrey | |||
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| x Hispanic |
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Matt Santos |
Hispanic (Spanish: hispano, hispánico) ient Hispania (geographically coinciding with the Iberian Peninsula). During the modern era, it took on a more limited meaning, relating to the contemporary nation of Spain.
Still more recently, the term is...
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| x Russian |
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Vadim Maslennikov |
The Russian people (русские, russkiye) are an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.
The English term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity (see...
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| L | |||
| Sergei Dragunov | |||
| Sergei Vladimir | |||
| Billy Boss | |||
| x Japanese |
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L |
The Japanese people (日本人, Nihonjin, Nipponjin) are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry...
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| Misato Katsuragi | |||
| Tricia Takanawa | |||
| x European American |
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Norman Bates |
European American (Euro-American) is a person who resides in the United States and is either from Europe or is the descendant of European immigrants or founding colonists. Spanish Americans are the earliest European American group, with a continuous...
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| Shrieky | |||
| Eddie Heartson | |||
| Liey Heartson | |||
| Auntie Freeze | |||
| x Hamish | Suranoviremblastiran | ||
| x Gaian | Suranoviremblastiran |
Beings of the fictional planet Gaia, in the Foundation universe.
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| Blissenobiarella | |||
| x Irish people |
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James Dillon |
The Irish people (Irish: Muintir na hÉireann, na hÉireannaigh, na Gaeil) are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years (according to archaeological studies),...
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| Patrick Wade | |||
| x Ancient Greek | Kalos | ||
| Musides | |||
| x Italian |
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Angelo Ricci |
The Italian people (Italian: italiani) are an ethnic group, in the sense of sharing a common Italian culture, descent, and speaking the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or...
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| Fortunato Carneglia | |||
| Don Abbondio | |||
| Lorenzo Tramaglino | |||
| Lucia Mondella | |||
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| x Mexican | Juan Romero | ||
| x Melnibonéan | Elric of Melniboné | ||
| Yyrkoon | |||
| x Gauls |
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Asterix |
The Gauls were a Celtic people living in Gaul, the region roughly corresponding to what is now France and Belgium, from the Iron Age through the Roman period. They spoke the Continental Celtic language called Gaulish.
Archaeologically, they were the...
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| x Genetic Superman | Khan Noonien Singh | ||
| x Tlingit |
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Cookie Monster |
The Tlingit (pronounced /ˈklink-it/ or /ˈklink-it/ in English; sometimes spelled Tlinkit) are an Indigenous people of northwestern America. Their name for themselves is Lingít "people" (pronounced [ɬɪŋkɪt]). The Russian name КО-ЛЮ-ЖИ (Koloshi) (from...
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| x White American |
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Horatio Caine |
White American (often used interchangeably with "Caucasian American" and within the United States simply "white") is an umbrella term officially employed by the United States Census Bureau, Office of Management and Budget and other U.S. government...
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| Charlotte York | |||
| Sergeant Santorelli | |||
| Jake Berenson | |||
| Rachel Berenson | |||
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| x European American | |||
| x Monster | Beastly | ||
| x Swedish people |
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Martin Beck |
Swedes (Swedish: svenskar) are a Scandinavian people, mostly inhabiting Sweden and the other Nordic countries, with descendants living in a number of countries.
Until the 9th century, the Scandinavian people lived in small Germanic kingdoms and...
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| Fjorg Van Der Ploeg | |||
| x Chinese | Feng Wei |
The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following:
Apart from nationality (legal) reasons, place of residence (geographical factors), race (biological reasons), and ancestry (historical and genealogical factors) are involved in defining ...
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| Shun Gon | |||
